Famous Scientists
The female chemist who photographed DNA
Who is Rosalind Franklin?
The 1 specific type of the 4 macromolecules that DNA represents
What is a nucleic acid?
The complementary strand for: ACTGGTAACATA
What is TGACCATTGTAT?
The base that pairs with Adenine in RNA
What is Uracil (U)?
The last step in visualizing banana DNA
What is adding isopropyl alcohol?
The 2 men who built a model of DNA's shape (and may have stolen some research...)
Who are Watson and Crick?
What is Thymine?
The enzyme that "unzips" DNA by breaking bonds between A-T and C-G
What is helicase?
The type of RNA that makes a copy of a section of DNA and codes for a protein
What is messenger RNA (mRNA)?
The equivalent of plant sperm in our pollinating activity
What is pollen?
The 2 scientists who injected different bacteria into mice to see how bacteria "transformed"
Who are Griffith and Avery?
The amount of Cytosine in a sample if the amount of Thymine is 10%
The "glue" enzyme that seals new DNA strands back together after they've been formed
What is Ligase?
The 2 processes that "use RNA to make a copy of DNA" and then "use RNA to build a protein"
What are Transcription and Translation?
The deadly blood disorder extremely common in male descendants of Queen Victoria
What is hemophilia?
The 2 scientists who used radioactivity and viruses to prove the DNA was the ONLY genetic material
Who are Hershey and Chase?
The name for the single-ring structure shared by Thymine and Cytosine
What is pyrimidine?
The small chunks of new DNA that are built on the lagging strand during replication
What are Okazaki fragments?
The idea represented by "DNA --> RNA --> Protein"
What is the Central Dogma of Molecular Biology?
The company whose COVID-19 vaccination USD 320 teachers recieved
What is Moderna?
Female doctors Charpentier and Doudna recently won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for this gene-editing technology
What is CRISPR?
The type of loose bonds that bind A-T and C-G
What are hydrogen bonds?
Term that explains how each new DNA molecule is "half" built from the old DNA molecule and "half" new
What is semiconservative?
The 3 amino acids coded for by the DNA strand: "TAC-CTT-AAA"
What is Methionine-Glutamic Acid-Phenylalanine"?
The degenerative brain disorder inherited by the young child Hayden in the sad documentary clip we watched
What is Tay-Sachs?